ANGELICA. 23 



" The roote of Garden Angelica, is a singular remedie against poison, and 

 against the plague, and all infections taken by euill and corrup aire, if you 

 do but take a peece of the roote and holde it in your mouth, it doth most 

 certiiiuly driue away the pestilent! all aire, yea, although that corrup aire 

 have possessed the hart, yet it driueth it out again by vrine and sweate, as 

 rice and treacle doth and such like Antipharmaea. Angelica is an ene- 

 mie to poisons : it cureth pestilent diseases if it be vsed in season ; a dram 

 Avaight of the powder hereof is given with thin wine, or, if a feauer be 

 vehement, with the distilled water of Carduus Benedictus or of Tormen- 

 till, and with a little Aaneger and by itselfe also, with treacle of vipers added. 

 It openeth the liuer and spleene .... It extennuateth and maketh thinne 

 grosse and tough flegme .... It is reported that the roote is auaileable 

 against witchcraft and inchantments, if a man carrie the same about him 

 as Fuchsius saith. ... It is a most singular medicine against surfeiting and 

 lothsomnes to meate; it helpeth concoction in the storaacke and is right be- 

 neficial to the hart : it cureth the bitings of mad dogs and all other ve- 

 nomous beasts." Herhall, p. 849- 



The Laplanders, during that part of the year which they pass 

 in the woods, are subject to a severe kind of colic, against which 

 the root of Angelica is one of their chief remedies. They also 

 frequently mix the unexpanded umbels with the leaves of sorrel, 

 and boiling them down in water to the consistence of a syrup, 

 mix it with rein-deer's milk, and thus form a stomachic and 

 astringent medicine. 



